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Rick Warren - The Call is for You! (Part 2)

January 4, 2026 | 27:29

Rick Warren - The Call is for You! (Part 2)
In Pastor Rick Warren's inspirational sermon, he challenges listeners to answer God's call and discover their purpose in life. Exploring the themes of divine calling, grace, redemption, and community, he emphasizes that one's calling is a gift from God, chosen before birth, and connected to others. Through powerful examples and biblical teachings, he affirms that God empowers individuals to fulfill their unique callings and promises a eternal reward for those who live out their purpose. The sermon encourages listeners to embrace their calling, seek connection with others, and strive for the ultimate prize of sharing in God's kingdom and glory.
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - The Call is for You! (Part 2) | January 4, 2026
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  • Pastor rick warren: let's say the phone rang one day, and you
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  • Thought this is an interruption or it's gonna be bad news, but
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  • Somebody was calling to tell you, you had just inherited
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  • $50 million.
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  • You would not want to miss that call.
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  • What if god called you?
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  • Let me give you a little tip.
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  • When god calls you, do not use call waiting.
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  • When god calls you, do not, do not put it on
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  • The answer--voicemail.
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  • When god calls you, do not let it ring and ring and ring
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  • And ring.
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  • Pick it up on the first call when god calls you.
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  • Now, the bible says, you have already been called.
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  • You have been called according to his purpose.
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  • Couple verses down from that verse, romans 8:30, it says
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  • This, look here on the screen.
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  • "those that god predestined, he also called; and those he
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  • Called, he also justified, and those he justified, he
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  • Also glorified."
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  • The bible says, "you have been called by god."
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  • What does that mean?
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  • The word in the greek is the word "kaleo,"
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  • K-a-l-e-o, "kaleo."
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  • It's almost like call-e-o, call.
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  • And the word "kaleo" means god is calling you, and it's used
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  • About 100 times in the new testament, over 100 times, and
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  • Most of the time it's talking about your assignment in life.
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  • Your purpose in life.
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  • Your mission in life.
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  • The reason god created you, it is called your calling.
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  • Now, the first thing we learned from god's word is this, my
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  • Calling is a gift from god.
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  • My calling is a gift from god.
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  • I don't earn it, i don't deserve it, i don't work for it, i don't
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  • Bargain for it, i don't barter for it.
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  • It's just a flat out gift of god's grace.
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  • It is his present to me.
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  • When he created me, he called me, and it's all by grace.
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  • Galatians chapter 1 says this, "god, by his grace through
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  • Christ, has called you to become his people."
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  • The fact is, grace is that god knows all the things i've done,
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  • And even when i was thumbing my nose to him and rejecting him,
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  • God was saying, "i love you.
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  • I love you. i love you."
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  • Now, your calling is actually a part of your salvation.
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  • The calling to christ is also the calling to your purpose.
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  • 2 timothy 1:9 says, "he has saved us and called us."
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  • Notice they go together, "saved us and called us to a holy
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  • Life--not because of anything we have done but because of his own
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  • Purpose and grace."
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  • His purpose and his grace.
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  • So god gives me a calling in life simply 'cause he wants to
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  • Give me a calling in life.
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  • I don't deserve it. he just gives it to me.
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  • Now circle the word "purpose" on that verse, because that leads
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  • Us to the second thing we learn, and it's this, i am called for
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  • God's purpose.
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  • Not mine, but god's.
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  • You were made by god and you were made for god.
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  • And until you understand that, life's never gonna make sense.
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  • And you're gonna get bored and you're gonna get frustrated,
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  • You're gonna have all kinds of difficulty, because you don't
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  • Understand you were made for god.
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  • Here's the third principle.
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  • Number three, god chose my calling before i was born.
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  • You need to know that as we get ready to go in to live your
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  • Calling the next six weeks.
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  • My calling is a gift from god.
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  • I'm called for god's purpose, not mine, and my calling was
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  • Before i was born.
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  • God chose it.
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  • Let me show you some verses on this.
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  • Galatians chapter 1 verse 15.
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  • Paul says, "it pleased god in his kindness to choose me and
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  • Call me, even before i was born!"
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  • What undeserved mercy.
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  • Here's another example, jeremiah, jeremiah chapter 1,
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  • Verse 5: "before i shaped you in the womb, i knew all about you.
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  • Before you saw the light of day, i had holy plans for you."
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  • God called you before you were even born, and the bible says,
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  • God uniquely shaped you.
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  • You are a custom-made baby.
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  • Now there's a fourth thing that the bible teaches us about your
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  • Calling, and it is this, this is a big one.
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  • My sins and my mistakes don't change my call.
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  • Oh, i'm so glad for this one.
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  • My sins and my mistakes don't change my call, god's call for
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  • My life.
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  • It doesn't matter how messed up your life has been.
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  • Whether you messed it up or somebody messed it up for you,
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  • No matter how screwy it got, how difficult it became, no matter
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  • How many dumb decisions you've made in the past, it hasn't
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  • Changed god's call on your life at all.
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  • The call that god gave you before you were born, the call
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  • That god gave you when you were saved and reaffirmed when you're
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  • Saved, is a calling that god says, "it's there forever."
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  • It's a permanent calling and god doesn't change it.
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  • Now, a good example of this, of course, was paul.
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  • I mean, paul was a pretty rude dude in a crude mood before he
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  • Became an apostle.
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  • God called him to be an apostle.
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  • And in 1 timothy chapter 1, paul says this.
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  • "by calling me into his service, jesus has judged me trustworthy,
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  • Even though i used to be a blasphemer and a persecutor
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  • And contemptuous.
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  • Mercy, however, was shown me, because while i lacked faith, i
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  • Acted in ignorance."
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  • I love that phrase, the honesty there, "while i lacked faith, i
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  • Acted in ignorance."
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  • You know what he's saying?
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  • He's saying, "i did a lot of dumb stuff growing up."
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  • How many of you would admit, "i did a lot of dumb stuff growing
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  • Up," okay?
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  • I did a lot of--okay.
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  • That's apostle training.
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  • Okay, congratulations, okay.
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  • Do you know what paul was?
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  • Paul was a terrorist before he became an apostle.
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  • He was a religious terrorist.
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  • He was going to people's homes, dragging them out in the street,
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  • Throwing them into jail, killing people.
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  • He was a murderer.
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  • God said, "paul, that didn't change the call that i had for
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  • You from the day you were born.
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  • I had a plan for you.
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  • And even the bad stuff fits into the plan."
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  • The fact that i love most about god is that he never wastes
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  • Anything and he fits it all into his plan, even my sin.
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  • Even the stupid decisions that i've made that i will regret the
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  • Rest of my life, god says, "you know what?
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  • I'm gonna even put that in the plan.
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  • We'll make it work.
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  • I can bring all things can work together for good for those who
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  • Love god, who are called according to his purpose.
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  • I can fit that in there too."
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  • And not only can god say, "your sins and your mistakes don't
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  • Change your calling, the sins of other people against you don't
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  • Change your calling."
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  • Some of you may feel a little bruised, a little battered, a
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  • Little beat up by the world.
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  • Maybe you had somebody who was unfaithful to you.
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  • You had somebody walk out of your life.
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  • You had somebody betray you, reject you.
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  • Some of you have been molested.
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  • Some of you have been raped.
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  • I'm sorry, i am.
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  • But you know what?
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  • That did not change one bit of your value and that did not
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  • Change one bit of god's call on your life.
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  • It has not changed.
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  • You are still god's workmanship, god's masterpiece, created in
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  • Christ jesus to do good works.
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  • And you know what god says, "you know what?
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  • I can even take the ugly stuff and i'll take the stinger out
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  • Of it.
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  • And you know what?
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  • I'll even bring good out of it in your life, if you'll let me."
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  • The bible says, my sins and mistakes don't change
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  • God's call.
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  • I want you to write this down on your outline.
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  • God has no plan b for me.
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  • A lot of people think, "you know what?
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  • I really screwed up on that one, therefore, i gotta live with
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  • Plan b the rest of my life."
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  • No, you don't.
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  • It's part of plan a. god has no plan b for me.
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  • When i think about this, i think about chuck coulson.
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  • Chuck coulson was one of the most powerful men in the world.
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  • In his day, he was assistant to the president of the united
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  • States of america.
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  • And then he got involved in a scandal, watergate, and he went
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  • To prison.
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  • And in prison, he found christ, became a believer, saw the need
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  • For people in prisons to know the lord, started prison
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  • Fellowship, which now in like 150, 60 countries, has blessed
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  • Millions of people.
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  • But when god created chuck coulson, he knew he would be
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  • Going from the presidency to prison and back out all in
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  • One life.
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  • And he said, "i'm gonna fit it into the plan.
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  • I'm gonna fit it into the plan."
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  • Number five, the fifth thing we learn about god's calling is my
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  • Calling is permanent.
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  • This is a further extension of what i just said.
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  • What i mean when it's permanent means nobody can take it
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  • From you.
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  • When you were growing up, your parents tried to probably make
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  • You something that you didn't really wanna be.
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  • Or your girlfriend, your boyfriend tried to make you
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  • Something you didn't wanna be, or your boss, or somebody in
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  • Your life is always trying to pressure you and conform you to
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  • Take away your true calling.
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  • Your calling cannot be taken from you.
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  • Satan can't take your calling away from you.
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  • You can't take your calling away from you.
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  • Other people can't take your calling away from you, and god
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  • Won't, 'cause he says, "i've given it to you permanently."
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  • The bible says in romans 11, verse 29, "god's gifts and his
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  • Callings are," read it with me, "irrevocable," circle that.
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  • They cannot be taken away.
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  • They are permanent.
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  • The calling on your life is never ever gonna change, no
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  • Matter what you've done, no matter what you've messed up.
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  • The expression may change, the timing, the when, the where, the
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  • How, but the calling will not change.
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  • You still have the same gifts god gave you from the beginning.
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  • Now what does this verse teach us?
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  • If my calling is permanent, it means this.
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  • My job is not my calling 'cause your job changes.
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  • How many of you have ever changed jobs?
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  • Yeah, how many have ever lost a job?
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  • How many have ever been unemployed?
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  • Yeah, you're gonna have many, many jobs in life.
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  • Your job is not your calling.
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  • Jobs change all the time.
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  • Calling never changes.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: do you ever wonder if your life really
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  • Matters or what on earth you're here for?
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  • Pastor rick wants to let you know that god has a good plan
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  • And purpose for your life.
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  • In his bestselling book,
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  • "the purpose driven life,"
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  • He lays out a simple, life-changing
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  • Roadmap to help you discover
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  • And live it.
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  • This book has transformed millions of lives and it could
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  • Transform someone you love, and great news, it's been updated
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  • For today's generation.
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  • This edition includes a video introduction and audio teaching
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  • From pastor rick for each chapter and two powerful bonus
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  • Chapters on the biggest barriers to living a purpose-driven life.
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  • As you go through this book, you'll uncover that your deepest
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  • Meaning and fulfillment doesn't come from success or status, but
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  • From understanding and living out the purpose that god created
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  • You for.
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  • Request your copy today when you
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  • Give a gift to help "daily hope"
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  • Share the gospel around the world.
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  • Pastor rick: the bible says, "god's gifts and his call can
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  • Never be withdrawn."
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  • So no matter what happens, they're permanent in your life.
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  • Number six, very important point.
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  • My calling is connected to others.
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  • My calling, my assignment from god in life, my purpose, my
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  • Vision, the dream god has for my life is connected to
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  • Other people.
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  • What do i mean by that?
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  • You cannot fulfill your purpose in life by yourself.
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  • It is impossible.
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  • You can only do it connected to other people.
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  • Calling and community go together.
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  • You cannot be what god wants you to be.
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  • You cannot fulfill what god wants you to fulfill.
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  • You cannot enjoy your destiny on your own.
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  • You have to do it connected to other people.
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  • It's like the parts of your body, they're worthless unless
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  • They're connected.
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  • You have an eyeball which is extremely gifted.
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  • It has the ability to take light, translate that to your
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  • Brain and you see things.
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  • But an eyeball outside of a socket is worthless.
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  • It can't see anything 'cause it's not connected.
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  • You have an ear, which is an amazing gift of god, where your
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  • Ear can take waves, turn them into impulses to your brain, and
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  • Your brain hears sounds.
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  • If your ear is disconnected from your body, it's worthless.
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  • That ear can't hear anything unless it's connected.
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  • You have a hand, and that hand has an amazing ability to grasp,
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  • To write, to fix things.
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  • But that hand, if it were cut off, it has no use.
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  • A hand has no power, no talent, no ability, no purpose without
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  • Being connected to the body.
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  • You have to be connected to the body to fulfill your calling.
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  • The bible calls the church the body of christ, the family of
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  • God, but it calls it the body.
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  • And we're all members like a hand, eye, nose, feet,
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  • Everything connected to the body.
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  • Look at this verse on the screen, romans 14:7.
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  • "none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to
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  • Himself alone."
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  • You gotta be connected.
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  • How do you get connected?
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  • Through a church family.
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  • It's why we talk about small groups all the time, cause in
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  • That small group, there's a connection there where you learn
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  • From other people.
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  • They help you in your weakness, you help them in their weakness.
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  • Let me show you a couple verses.
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  • Ephesians 4:4.
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  • "we are all one body," circle that, all one body.
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  • "we all have the same spirit," circle, same spirit.
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  • "and we have all been called," circle that, all been called.
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  • We're all one body, all have the same spirit, all been called to
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  • The same glorious future hope.
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  • It is only in connection, in community that i will fulfill
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  • My calling.
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  • Hebrews 3:1, "brothers and sisters, you are holy partners
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  • In a heavenly calling."
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  • The other people in your small group are partners in a
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  • Heavenly calling.
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  • We're better together.
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  • We're better as a team.
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  • That's why church, you have to be connected.
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  • We'll talk about this more in the future.
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  • Number seven, god empowers what he calls me to do.
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  • That's the seventh thing i need to know about my calling, that
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  • Whatever god calls me to do, he's gonna empower me to do.
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  • God empowers what he calls me to do.
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  • In other words, if god has given me an assignment in life, he's
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  • Gonna enable me to do it, he's gonna equip me to do it, he's
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  • Gonna empower me to do it, he's gonna strengthen me to do it,
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  • He's going to give me the ability to do it.
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  • God would never ask you to do anything with your life that he
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  • Doesn't give you the power to do.
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  • So here's how it works.
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  • Once i understand that god has a calling on my life, okay?
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  • And i understand that.
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  • What i do is i commit myself to him.
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  • And when i commit myself to god's calling for me, i said,
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  • "god, whatever time i've got left on this earth, i wanna use
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  • It to fulfill your calling for me, whether it's a week, a
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  • Month, years, or whatever, decades.
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  • I commit to your calling for my life."
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  • God commits his resources to help you do it.
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  • You say, "i don't even know what it is."
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  • I commit to your calling for my life.
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  • God says, "then i will commit the resources, what you need to
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  • Get it done."
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  • Look at this verse, ephesians 4:1.
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  • "i urge you to live the life to which god called you."
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  • Now notice, the calling is a lifestyle, and you are to live
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  • The life to which god called you.
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  • Now here's my prayer, 2 thessalonians chapter 1: "this
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  • Is why we always pray for you, asking our god to help you,"
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  • That's in power, "to help you live the kind of life he called
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  • You to live."
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  • God says, "if i called you to live this kind of life, i'm
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  • Gonna help you with the power.
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  • "we pray that with his power god will help you do the good things
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  • You want, and perform the works that come from your faith."
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  • Notice, do the good things and perform the works.
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  • That's the good works we were talking about earlier.
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  • And god says, "i will give you the power."
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  • You can count on god to give you the strength you need.
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  • 1 thessalonians 5, "the one who calls you is faithful and he
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  • Will do it."
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  • Now, there's one more truth that i want us to cover as we start
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  • This week.
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  • Let me review.
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  • My calling is a gift from god.
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  • I'm called for god's purpose, not my own.
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  • God chose my calling before i was born, so i didn't have
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  • Anything to do with it.
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  • My sins and my mistakes don't change my calling.
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  • My calling is permanent, satan can't take it away, nobody else
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  • On earth can take it away.
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  • It's irrevocable.
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  • My calling is connected to others.
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  • I gotta be connected to the body or it doesn't work.
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  • God will empower me to do what he calls me to do.
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  • And here's the last point.
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  • There's a prize.
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  • There's a prize for living out my calling, and this is why i'm
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  • Very excited about this series.
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  • There is a prize for living out my calling.
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  • God has promised a reward for those people who discover and
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  • Live the calling he made them for here on earth.
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  • And that reward's gonna last forever.
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  • Philippians 3:14.
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  • "i pressed toward the goal to win the prize," circle that, "to
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  • Win the prize for which god has called me heavenward in
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  • Christ jesus."
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  • What is the price?
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  • Oh man.
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  • It would take me months to explain all that god wants to do
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  • In heaven for eternity with you.
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  • But let me just say this, the prize is that you get to share
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  • In everything god has in heaven.
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  • You get to share in his kingdom, you get to share in his glory,
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  • You get to share in his power.
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  • It all becomes yours.
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  • You see, life on earth is a test.
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  • Why didn't god just create you and take you to heaven?
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  • If you're going there anyway, why didn't he just take you
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  • There first?
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  • 'cause he put you here on earth to test your faithfulness.
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  • And he gives you a few things and puts them in your care,
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  • Opportunities, relationships, things, and he says, let's see
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  • What you do.
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  • And if you're faithful with a little, then i can trust you
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  • With all of my riches and all of my power, and all of my glory in
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  • Heaven for eternity.
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  • Faithful in little, you'll be faithful much.
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  • This is a test.
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  • And god is testing to see if you are going to fulfill the calling
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  • He put you here on earth to fulfill.
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  • And if you do, then he's gonna share with you everything that
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  • Is his.
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  • This is the most amazing thing.
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  • Look at the next verse.
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  • 1 thessalonians 2:12, "live the kind of life that pleases god,
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  • Who calls you, who calls you to share."
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  • And what are we gonna share?
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  • "who calls you to share in his own kingdom and glory."
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  • That's amazing--that for eternity god will share his
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  • Kingdom and his glory if i live out my calling.
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  • It's hard to even explain this, get your head--wrap your head
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  • Around it.
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  • So let me just say it like this.
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  • Imagine on broadway, in new york city, a giant marquee lit up at
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  • Night with bright lights, and it says, "now starring for
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  • Eternity, jesus christ, co-starring your name."
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  • You will share in his kingdom and glory.
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  • Now you got my attention.
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  • Now i'm interested in fulfilling my calling.
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  • I don't wanna get to heaven and go, "did you fulfill
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  • Your calling?"
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  • "oh, i didn't even know i had one."
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  • Well, you do.
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  • And if you fulfill your calling in life and you do what god--you
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  • Make the most of what you're giving, god says, "you're gonna
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  • Share in my kingdom and glory forever."
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  • Are you interested in that?
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  • I am.
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  • I am.
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  • That is a big-time prize that goes on and on forever.
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  • Now, we talked earlier about answering the phone if
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  • God called.
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  • The fact is, god has already called.
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  • He's already called you.
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  • That phone has been ringing in your life since the moment you
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  • Were conceived.
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  • Are you gonna pick up the phone?
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  • It's been ringing.
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  • God's call for you has been ringing from the point of
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  • Your conception.
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  • And so you've just been ignoring it, ring, ring, ring, ring.
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  • God's saying, "i'm not hanging up."
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  • Will you pick up the phone and today say, "i'm gonna begin to
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  • Discover, develop, and live the call that god made for me--
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  • That i will learn what on earth am i here for and i will spend
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  • The rest of my life learning to do that"?
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  • Now i'm gonna pray for you in just a second.
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  • We're gonna pray a prayer of blessing.
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  • But you've got to make the decision, "am i gonna answer
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  • God's call?"
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  • Let's bow for prayer.
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  • As we close, pray this prayer in your heart.
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  • "dear god, thank you that you created me, that i'm not
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  • An accident.
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  • Thank you that i've been in your care even before i was born.
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  • Thank you that you not just created me, but you have
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  • Called me.
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  • You have a purpose and assignment for my life.
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  • I'm not here just to waste time.
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  • Thank you that you called me for your purpose.
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  • I want your plan, not mine.
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  • Thank you that that plan began from the moment of my birth, and
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  • Even though i made many mistakes and i've sinned a lot, and other
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  • People have hurt me, it hasn't changed my call one bit.
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  • Thank you that my calling is permanent.
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  • And i realized today that i cannot fulfill my
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  • Purpose disconnected.
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  • I need to be connected to others in your body, in your family,
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  • With the same spirit, and the same calling.
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  • I thank you, lord, that you've promised to give me the power to
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  • Do what you've asked me to do,
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  • That you won't ask me to do something you won't enable me
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  • And strengthen me to do.
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  • Lord, i want that prize in life.
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  • I wanna live the rest of my life that one day i may share in your
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  • Kingdom and in your glory."
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  • If you've never invited jesus into your life, say, "jesus
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  • Christ, come into my life now.
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  • I wanna learn to love you and trust you and serve you.
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  • In your name i pray, amen."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: do you ever wonder if your life really
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  • Matters or what on earth you're here for?
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  • Pastor rick wants to let you know that god has a good plan
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  • And purpose for your life.
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  • In his bestselling book,
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  • "the purpose driven life," he lays
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  • Out a simple, life-changing
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  • Roadmap to help you discover
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  • And live it.
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  • This book has transformed millions of lives and it could
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  • Transform someone you love, and great news, it's been updated
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  • For today's generation.
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  • This edition includes a video introduction and audio teaching
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  • From pastor rick for each chapter and two powerful bonus
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  • Chapters on the biggest barriers to living a purpose-driven life.
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  • As you go through this book, you'll uncover that your deepest
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  • Meaning and fulfillment doesn't come from success or status, but
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  • From understanding and living out the purpose that god created
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  • You for.
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